- Nov 07, 2020
Man Quotes
Short lines on character, patience and what it means to be a man.
This is a smaller, general collection of quotes touching on manhood, character and patience. One well-known line uses golf as an example, a test of temperament disguised as a leisure game, to make a wider point about what reveals a man's spirit. For steadier, values-driven lines, see our Good quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Hero
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- Nov 07, 2020
You don't send a man to his death because you want a hero.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
The more I find out about the dynamic and how it works, the more I realize how lucky I am to have ever got anything. Like... there was no need to put me in 'Cinderella Man' - there was no need. Why? Just get an American actor - it would've been cheaper, probably.
- Gilt
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- Nov 07, 2020
Politeness and civility are the best capital ever invested in business. Large stores, gilt signs, flaming advertisements, will all prove unavailing if you or your employees treat your patrons abruptly. The truth is, the more kind and liberal a man is, the more generous will be the patronage bestowed upon him.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
Unless a man enters upon the vocation intended for him by nature, and best suited to his peculiar genius, he cannot succeed. I am glad to believe that the majority of persons do find their right vocation.
- Brave
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- Nov 07, 2020
Fortune always favors the brave, and never helps a man who does not help himself.
- Experience
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- Nov 07, 2020
No man has a right to expect to succeed in life unless he understands his business, and nobody can understand his business thoroughly unless he learns it by personal application and experience.
- Morning
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is no such thing in the world as luck. There never was a man who could go out in the morning and find a purse full of gold in the street to-day, and another to-morrow, and so on, day after day: He may do so once in his life; but so far as mere luck is concerned, he is as liable to lose it as to find it.
- Son
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- Nov 07, 2020
Every man should make his son or daughter learn some useful trade or profession, so that in these days of changing fortunes of being rich today and poor tomorrow they may have something tangible to fall back upon. This provision might save many persons from misery, who by some unexpected turn of fortune have lost all their means.
- Cunning
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- Nov 07, 2020
Man has made many machines, complex and cunning, but which of them indeed rivals the workings of his heart?
- Lost
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- Nov 07, 2020
A child who does not play is not a child, but the man who doesn't play has lost forever the child who lived in him and who he will miss terribly.
- He
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- Nov 07, 2020
Painting is a blind man's profession. He paints not what he sees, but what he feels, what he tells himself about what he has seen.
- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'd like to live as a poor man with lots of money.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm about caring, I'm about people, and I'm about entertaining people. I'm a family man. A husband. A father. I've been a lot of other things over the years, which we don't really want to talk about.
- Night
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- Nov 07, 2020